Booking CM Punk's WWE Return

7. Penning The Deal

It should hardly need to be said that Punk is unlikely to agree to a return without the promise of a red carpet being rolled out before him (indeed, the absence of leading man roles being sent his way was one of the primary reasons he took his ball home in the first place).

Simply put, the 38-year-old has to be shoe-horned into the main event, and it has to be at WrestleMania (oh, and they have to get Living Colour perform his entrance music live too - because it's just really cool).

So, in short, we're working backwards from the Straight Edge Superstar being in the headline match at WrestleMania 34 in New Orleans. And here's how we get there.